The Pennellville volunteer firefighter who helped save a woman's life twice after two separate car crashes is expected to appear on the Glenn Beck show Thursday night.

Duane Royal said a producer at the show called the fire station to talk to him after an article about him appeared Tuesday in The Post-Standard. Royal said he returned the call later that day, and the producer asked him to be part of a short segment.

Jim Commentucci/Staff photographerRhonda McEvers, 23, stands with Pennellville emergency medical technician Duane Royal near the scene of one of her two car crashes.

"They're going to pick me up at the fire station. Someone is going to take me to a studio in Syracuse, then bring me back," Royal said. "I've got butterflies already."

The segment is scheduled to be taped Thursday afternoon, and the show will air at 7 and 9 p.m. on CNN Headline News, said Janine Iamunno, a spokeswoman for Headline News.

Royal, a basic emergency medical technician for the last three years and a Pennellville volunteer firefighter for the last five years, said he was watching the Glenn Beck show shortly after midnight July 7 when his fire radio crackled: A car had rolled over on state Route 49 in Palermo and someone might be hurt.

Royal responded and soon realized the woman trapped inside the passenger's side of the car was Rhonda McEvers, a 23-year-old college student who he had helped save a year earlier. On April 2, 2006, McEvers was airlifted to University Hospital after she crashed her car into a tree at 55 mph on state Route 49 in Pennellville.

McEvers said she considers Royal a guardian angel.

Producers heard about the news article through a Google Alert, Iamunno said.